bookshops

So much Cotswold stone finally finished! The @borzoibookshop is a delight of a bookshop in a charmingly, plain and ordinary building… . #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Filling in the gaps… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating @borzoibookshop

I feel like I’m building an entire Cotswold town…! #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating @borzoibookshop

I feel like I’m building an entire Cotswold town…! #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating @borzoibookshop

When drawing a bookshop becomes drawing the whole street… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating @borzoibookshop

I’m sure there was a perfectly good reason why I decided to draw both sides of the street… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating @borzoibookshop

What a lot of Cotswold stone wall there is in the @borzoibookshop… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

It’s finished! The half-timbered nature of this building has made drawing Barton’s Bookshop both a pleasure and a challenge. . Available to order now from my @etsyuk shop in three sizes: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/645577485/bartons-bookshop-leatherhead . #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Almost there. It looks so much better with a door… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Looking more like a building now. Time to call it a night though… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Lots of bricks. Lots of leaded lights. Lots of time… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Why do I do this to myself? You’d ha e thought that a black and white Tudor building would be easy in pen and ink… #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Jobs done. Sunday afternoon sketching… can you guess where it is yet…? #bookshops #bookshopsofinstagram #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating

Getting down to those fiddly gable bits. @waterstones_oxford has more fiddly bits than Norway has fjörds… #bookshopsofinstagram #bookshops #bookloversguidetobookshops #illustration #amillustrating